Banffshire
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The journalist and author James Naughtie was brought up in nearby Banffshire and knows well the area in which Sunset Song is set.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2025
Hamish Watt was a Conservative turned Scottish Nationalist MP who represented Banffshire from 1974 to 1979, winning the seat as popularity for the SNP surged.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2014
Dunbar's paternal grandfather left Dundee for America in 1909 and her grandmother a few years later from Gardenstown in Banffshire.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2012
Up for sale and advertised in the New York Times was Glenfiddich, the famed, fabulous, 31,000-acre Banffshire estate of the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, whose family once owned more than a quarter-million British acres.
From Time Magazine Archive
At Montblairie, in Banffshire, shreds of linen and woollen were hung on the bushes beside a consecrated well, and farthings and halfpence were thrown into the water.
From Bygone Church Life in Scotland by Various
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